Micrographia restaurata, or, The copper plates of Dr. Hooke's wonderful discoveries by the microscope, reprinted and fully explained : whereby the most valuable particulars in that celebrated author's Micrographia are brought together in a narrow compass; and intermixed, occasionally, with many entertaining and instructive discoveries and observations in natural history

by: Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703

Publication date: 1745

Topics: Microscopy, Natural history, Microscopes

Publisher: London : Printed for and sold by John Bowles, printseller at the Black Horse in Cornhill. Sold also by R. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, and John Cuff, Optician, in Fleetstreet. MDCCXLV. [1745]

Collection: brigham_young_university; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Brigham Young University

Contributor: Harold B. Lee Library

Language: English

Signatures: [A]-QÂ², RÂ²+Â¹, SÂ²

Text prepared by Henry Baker. Cf. Journal of the Soc. for the Bibl. of Natural Hist., vol. 6, 1972, p. 171-3

Printer's ornament on the title page

Tail-pieces

Plates are engraved

ESTC

Bound in half claf; blind stamped spine; marbled paper sides with small gilt stamped. Both spine and side ornament is a royal crest

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